It’s hard to believe that we’re coming up on the 10th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, with that particular game being one of my favorites of the entire franchise. All of the motion looks smooth, andcolors are vivid. If nothing else, Twilight Princess will whet your appetite for the upcoming Legend of Zelda Wii U. Seeing the beauty, the shortcomings, and the previous-gen system limitations play together in the world of Hyrule made it all the more exciting to speculate about what Nintendo will do with their creation. Adventurers everywhere will be able to take their first steps from Hyrule into the Twilight Realm once again starting Friday, March 4. Their expertise was called on for Mass Effect 3: Special Edition and Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut, and, while we’ll never be aware of their discussions, it seems that Nintendo were suitably impressed by their success in porting existing games while integrating the Wii U GamePad. Not too far into the game Hyrule and most of its surrounding lands are invaded by the Twilight, with the King of the dark magic attempting to do what all binary evil rulers want to do – overthrow Princess Zelda.
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Quirky dialogue, plenty of sidequests, a plot rather moving for a Zelda game, and tons of space to gallop about in means you’ll be playing Twilight Princess for a long, long time.
Seeing as The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD is on the verge of releasing for the Wii U, Nintendo has posted a retrospective video discussing the original game’s development. No one will ever see that rock the way I did during that fleeting moment, that particular technological inflection point. Whereas, outside of this, the Link, Toon Link, Zelda, Sheik and Ganondorf amiibo refill your quiver, replenish your hearts or see Link receive twice as much damage as normal.
Nintendo’s HD update modernizes this epic Zelda game, but also brings out some of its flaws. Inspect them more closely, and you’ll probably find them to be eerily familiar. In series tradition, Twilight Princess develops a natural language over the course of the adventure that makes deciphering its item-based puzzles intuitive.
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If you buy the Wolf Link amiibo, you’ll get access to the new Cave of Shadows. Using it opens up a new dungeon that you explore as a wolf, although I wasn’t too thrilled with what I saw of it-it was just a basic series of fights against increasingly tougher enemies drawn from the main game.
